C. Schoppmann et al., SPONTANEOUS DESORPTION - DEPENDENCE OF THE DESORPTION RATE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF GRID AND SAMPLE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 83(1-2), 1993, pp. 214-218
It is shown that the grid temperature determines the desorption rate o
f the Spontaneous Desorption for a given sample voltage. The sample te
mperature has only a minor effect on the rates. From these observation
s it is concluded that SD is mainly a two-step process: ions are sputt
ered from the sample surface by keV ions which originate at the grid v
ia the temperature dependent field enhanced desorption of adsorbates.